Nobel prize winner and author of the highly regarded Globalization and Its Discontent, Prof. Joseph Stiglitz will be giving a lecture here in Michigan roughly in two weeks time. He and along with two others won the prize for economics in 2001 for their research on asymmetric information.

I've read Globalization and Its Discontent long ago but I borrowed it from the library. It is an enlightening book though I do feel the title is a misnomer. It should be International Financial Institutions and Its Discontent or something like that. Nonetheless, I need to buy it, meet the Prof and get it signed!

This time, I promise myself to be at the lecture hall an hour earlier and I'm going to sit in the front row. Maybe second or third but you get the idea. I'm sure the lecture will be as packed as Prof. Noam Chomsky's and I really hate standing by the door.

Details at Michigan Economics.

And w00t! 500th post. Another 500 to my 1000th post. Also, another 100006505606161000 t0 the 100006505606161500th post - quite meaningless actually.